Larry,
> I'm just wondering if anyone can share any tips or
> useful information ( settings, etc) that we can pass
> on to the engineers who are exporting the data.
my reply might be too late for you this time, but I really suggest to
use Rhino to clean up IGES data giving you trouble before going into
Houdini.
You basically:
- Import into Rhino
- Select/delete/modify whatever you need
- Re-export as IGES or OBJ
- Import into Houdini
Rhino eats the most exotic IGES files and allows customizing the
re-export at a very fine level. The only drawback with Rhino is that
it's Windows only which sucks balls the size of planets, imho. :)
Cheers,
Moritz